[1] The show followed the adventures of Chorlton, an anthropomorphic "happiness dragon", in "Wheelie World" (where people moved on wheels instead of legs).
[2] Chorlton and the Wheelies was created by Cosgrove Hall Productions for Thames Television and broadcast on the ITV network.
The eponymous lead character gets his name from the suburb of Manchester in which the Cosgrove Hall studio was based: the legend "Made in Chorlton-cum-Hardy" is found written on the inside of the egg from which he hatches in the very first episode of the series.
Plots are extremely simple, mainly revolve around Fenella's schemes to make the wheelies unhappy and Chorlton's accidental rectification of everything that goes wrong.
Characters on wheels were easier to manipulate than those with legs that needed fractionally moving many times for each second of filming.